MH370: Families unfurl banner demanding answers about missing flight

Chinese relatives of passengers on Malaysia Airlines flight 370 demand that
Malaysia apologise for its handling of the search for the missing plane

10:30AM BST 30 Mar 2014

Holding up banners that read "you must return relatives of MH370, no strings attached" and "Hand us the murderer. Tell us the truth. Give us our relatives back", several dozen Chinese relatives of passengers staged a protest at a hotel near Kuala Lumpur just hours after flying in from Beijing.

Two-thirds of the 227 passengers aboard the Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared March 8 en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur were Chinese, and many of the relatives have denounced Malaysia's handling of the search for the jet.

Jiang Hui, the relatives' designated representative, said they wanted the Malaysian government to apologise for what they see as missteps in the initial handling of the disaster as well as Prime Minister Najib Razak's earlier statement that indicated the plane had crashed with no survivors.

Mr Jiang said the relatives felt the conclusion was announced without sufficient evidence.

He said the group wanted to meet airline and government officials, although he stopped short of saying that included Mr Najib, as earlier proposed by some relatives.

Mr Najib went on television on March 24 to say that based on radar and satellite analysis the plane had crashed somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean, but there were lingering questions because there was no physical evidence.

It has been 22 days since the plane went missing and so far none of the recovered debris has been linked to MH370.